Question follow-through · 84503
Foster Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that independent fostering agencies receive adequate support to provide high-quality fostering services.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 31 Oct 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Education and skills
- Children: Poverty · 10 Dec 2025
- Citizenship and Media: Education · 29 Jan 2026
- Adoption: Training · 11 Feb 2026
- Adoption: Mental Health Services · 11 Feb 2026
- Home Education: Assessments · 11 Feb 2026
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Recorded timeline
22 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that independent fostering agencies receive adequate support to provide high-quality fostering services.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2025
Answer published
The department’s priority is to recruit and retain more foster carers so there is a choice of stable, loving foster homes for children in care.The government is committed to ensuring a fostering system that meets the needs of children and young people and...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Home Education: Assessments
11 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the financial impact of participating in GCSE exams on home-schooled students.
Teachers: Disciplinary Proceedings
2 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to review how teacher suspensions are used in disciplinary investigations.
Teachers: Disciplinary Proceedings
2 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what oversight exists to ensure schools comply with national procedures when suspending teachers.
Teachers: Disciplinary Proceedings
2 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what mechanisms are in place to monitor the welfare of teachers while they are suspended.
Mathematics: Education
11 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the report entitled Evaluation of pupil attainment and progression in Maths Schools, published in October 2025 by The Observatory for Mathema
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13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to reply to the correspondence of 20 March 2026 from the hon. Member for Torbay.
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9 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate they have made of the number of children eligible for free school meals who are not registered to receive them.